I haven't been able to catch Kendall's somersault over the boppy on video yet but I caught some tummy time on Hanna bear. Our puppy is such a good sport! I still think it is so funny that K will be perfectly happy on her tummy when she is laying on Hanna, but squirms and fusses when she is on her mat or the boppy :) She must really love her doggy!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Progression of a Pregnant Lady
You would think that having this amazing little angle named Kendall would keep my mind off of how much I enjoyed being pregnant but I still miss my belly every day. Don't get me wrong, I am beyond stoked about getting my pre-baby body back so quickly (and working hard to get it even better than before!) but there was nothing like being pregnant. I had more energy, everybody tries to dote on me, the excitement of what is coming is indescribable and then there was that adorable baby bump. I've always loved pregnant women's bellies :) NO we have no desire to get pregnant again any time soon! I guess it's just the next round of friends about to have babies, and seeing their amazing bumps grow, that's got me thinking about it more. So I decided to go back and look at my bump pictures and can't believe the changes that happened in/with my body. I wanted to post a progression of my belly from start to finish on here but after Miss K made her appearance I thought it might be a little silly. Well...I am silly so here it is!
4 weeks along - Bascially this was taken right when we found out. This picture reminds me of a saying an old coworker use to say - I wish I was the size I was when I thought I was fat!
10 weeks along. 
15 Weeks - I probably thought I was totally showing at this point....ha!
20 weeks
25 weeks and finally actually showing
30 weeks and popped!
35 weeks
39 weeks :) I really did love having that belly!Thanks for putting up with my crazy! Let's hope when we do decide to have another kid that I love it as much as I did the first time.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Hump Day Pick Me Up
All happy and ready for daycare!
Cute outfit from Auntie Victoria
She thinks I'm funny :)
Kendall loves her bouncer even though she can't touch the ground yet. We put a shoe box under her feet so she can push off at least a little bit.
Kendall and big sis Hanna bear having some play mat time
All that play time was exhausting!
Can this kid pull off a hat or what!? I LOVE this one!
Birthday boy John and K
Auntie Mandy time at John's 30th birthday lunch
Such a happy girl! Right after this picture was taken she did a pretty awesome face plant into the couch. Stiff as a board just fell over then proceeded to laugh. Atta girl!
Typical Kendall look - heart melting if you ask me
I love babies in overalls!
Hope these made your day just a little bit better! I know they make me giddy when I look at them!Monday, September 26, 2011
Salsafest!
Every year Redwood City has a Salsa Festival in the court house square (where most of the events we go to are). It's a huge event with three stages of salsa music, salsa dancing, dance lessons, tequila tastings, beer tastings, street fair and the best part...salsa tasting competition! Lucas nominated Mike to compete this year and the group talked him (us) into it. We were 1 of 10 booths competing for the title of people's choice, best hot salsa, best mild salsa (we entered into the hot category) and best booth decoration. The group came up with a Nautical theme and our salsa was called "Cap'n Mike's I'm on a Boat Salsa". If you watch SNL you'll understand the name a little better. Everything had to be made onsite and we had to keep everything extra clean because the health inspectors come through to make sure everything is being done to code. We were allowed to get there at 8am and needed to have a minimum of 6 gallons of salsa. The competition was from 12-5 so all of the salsa didn't need to be made upfront (you can continue to make it throughout the day) but since Mike fire roasts almost all the ingredients, and we needed it to cool down completely, we went at warp speed to have all the salsa made before the crowds started to come through. Our friends signed up for 2 hour chunks to help us man the booth (Special thanks to Sarah and Cary who were there from start to finish) and everything went beyond smoothly! Kendall even dressed up and helped out by giving me an amazing work out by being on my chest the whole day while I chopped, blended, peeled and poured. Of course I forgot to take a picture of her in her cute nautical outfit and headband I made. We ended up making around 10 gallons of salsa that morning!!
Throughout the entire day people were coming back to our booth asking us where they can buy our salsa. A few were pretty upset when they found out we didn't sell it anywhere! Our secret spy's kept telling us that our voting jar was one of the most full of all the booths. There was only one other booth that was even close. When it came down to the end of tastings, we were the only booth that had any salsa left - and not much! We cleaned up and waited for the votes to be counted. We ended up winning the best booth decoration (yay!) but sadly did not win the people's choice. We came in second, loosing by around 50 votes, and we also came in second by only ONE vote in the hot category. Damn, SO close!! It really was a great time and totally worth loosing out on the $500 prize for people's choice. Considering we gave out around 1000 tastings and only lost by 50 votes, I don't think that's too bad. We'll get them next year....
Here's a link to the San Mateo Journal that interview Mike for their article on the salsafest - http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=168102&title=Heat+seekers
Our booth!
Cap'n Mike imitating his creepy picture from one of the posters (haha)
Kendall and me doing the chopping and blending after Mike took the ingredients off the grill
Sadly the power wasn't strong enough to run the Cuisinart, but the blender worked so well we didn't really need then anyways :)
One of the giant buckets of salsa in process of getting filled up. We froze water bottles and sanitized them to float in the salsa to cool it from the inside as well. Smart huh?
Mommy and Baby girl (I think I look at lot like my mom here!)
A few of our favorite tasters! Michelle and GT :)
Cary and Sarah - our super star boat/booth babes!
Another one of our favorite tasters - Mandy
Second round of boat/booth babes - Lisa, Karen and Jen
We were only allowed four people in the booth at a time, otherwise we would have for sure had the party booth! Our friends and additional helpers just hung in back or on the side and we took turns switching. It was super windy Saturday and it was WAY warmer in the booth.
The crew (minus Sarah) - Cary, Jen, Cap'n Mike, Shari, Lisa, Kendall and me
We went to the main stage to wait to hear the results and these guys were big winner's at the Chavez Spinner - free taco, pen, t-shirt, hat and apron! (Dave, Jen and Kevin)
Try to keep K warm, although she didn't seem to mind the cold :)
Yay for winning best booth!
Throughout the entire day people were coming back to our booth asking us where they can buy our salsa. A few were pretty upset when they found out we didn't sell it anywhere! Our secret spy's kept telling us that our voting jar was one of the most full of all the booths. There was only one other booth that was even close. When it came down to the end of tastings, we were the only booth that had any salsa left - and not much! We cleaned up and waited for the votes to be counted. We ended up winning the best booth decoration (yay!) but sadly did not win the people's choice. We came in second, loosing by around 50 votes, and we also came in second by only ONE vote in the hot category. Damn, SO close!! It really was a great time and totally worth loosing out on the $500 prize for people's choice. Considering we gave out around 1000 tastings and only lost by 50 votes, I don't think that's too bad. We'll get them next year....
Here's a link to the San Mateo Journal that interview Mike for their article on the salsafest - http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=168102&title=Heat+seekers
Our booth!
Kendall and me doing the chopping and blending after Mike took the ingredients off the grill
Sadly the power wasn't strong enough to run the Cuisinart, but the blender worked so well we didn't really need then anyways :)
A few of our favorite tasters! Michelle and GT :)
We made little anchor stickers to put on our cups so people wouldn't forget which one was ours and had two trays of salsa filled up at all times so we wouldn't get backed up when people came to taste. The green tickets are tasting tickets they had to provide us with before we have them a sample. That bowl was full by the end of the day!
Cary and Sarah - our super star boat/booth babes!
Another one of our favorite tasters - Mandy
Second round of boat/booth babes - Lisa, Karen and Jen
We were only allowed four people in the booth at a time, otherwise we would have for sure had the party booth! Our friends and additional helpers just hung in back or on the side and we took turns switching. It was super windy Saturday and it was WAY warmer in the booth.
The crew (minus Sarah) - Cary, Jen, Cap'n Mike, Shari, Lisa, Kendall and me
We went to the main stage to wait to hear the results and these guys were big winner's at the Chavez Spinner - free taco, pen, t-shirt, hat and apron! (Dave, Jen and Kevin)
Try to keep K warm, although she didn't seem to mind the cold :)
Yay for winning best booth!Thursday, September 22, 2011
Book Club Babes
We had our monthly "trashy book club" get together on the 12th. Crazy that just over 3 months ago all these little cuties were still in our belly's! Of course K passed out before we remembered to take pictures of them. How cute are they!?
Nicholas at just over 6 weeks, Alex at just over 3 months and Kendall a week shy of 3 months
Poor little Alex! It was the very end of the night (close to 10pm) so I don't blame her for being upset.Unrelated side note: Kendall officially rolled over for the first time yesterday! She went from her back to her tummy, and then of course got upset because she couldn't get back over. This morning she would roll herself all the way over but leave her arm tucked under her so she could get back - smart little girl! She's all leg strength so I'm curious to see how long it takes her to roll from tummy to back. When I put her on her tummy on the boppy she pushes with her legs until she is head down in-front of the boppy and ready to somersault over it! She has no interested in pushing herself up with her arms at this point. I'll have to remember to get some pictures/video of the somersault because it's pretty funny to see.
Cousin Fun!
I love how a year ago my camera was full of pictures of us, friends, family...adults. Now I'm lucky if I remember to zoom out a little so I get the person holding Kendall in the picture! This past week Kendall and I went to visit the Sigona's and Jones' while Mike went to beer camp (Homebrewer's conference that takes over an entire campground for a full weekend). We had a little too much fun trying to get pictures of the 4 kids :) Lexi is crawling now so it made it that much harder but they were good sports and put up with us posing them all weekend.
Lexi thinking "get out of here! I'm the baby girl in this family!"
Ohhh look at your pretty pacifier clip!
I like your headband, let me just rip that off your head...
Kendall thinking "uh oh, whats coming next?"
CUTIE PIE!
Austin blows my mind with his standing abilities at such a young age. He even picks up his feet to take steps!
Morning play time
Momma is so silly!
Gavin is so great with his little cousins :)
Look! An adult made it into a picture!
She melts my heart!
Just hanging out in the bumbo
Aunt B broke out the boot with the fur for little Miss Kendall. TOO cute!
Photo-shoot day 2 - so serious
Almost caught some smiles! I think someone should video tape adults trying to get their kids to smile and submit it to America's Funniest Home Video's. Just thinking about the arm flapping, silly faces and funny noises we make cracks me up!
Quick! Take the picture before Lexi or Gavin "run" away again!
Attempt number 47... Lexi starting to cry (but it looks like a smile!) Austin eating his hands and Kendall putting on a mighty sad pouty face. Who would ever think the almost 3 year old would be the good one the whole time?
The boys :)
The girls :)
Sunday morning Kendall slept in. When I went up to check on her this is what I found!
Sleeping with your arm up in the air...apparently very comfortable :)
Right when Kendall and I arrived we tried to get some pictures of the kids. Kendall was AMAZING on our four hour drive up to Sac Friday. FOUR HOURS!! Ugh... She went over an hour past her feeding time without a peep and still was able to smile and her Auntie's and take some pictures with her cousins before she started to melt down for food :)
Lexi thinking "get out of here! I'm the baby girl in this family!"
Ohhh look at your pretty pacifier clip!
I like your headband, let me just rip that off your head...
Kendall thinking "uh oh, whats coming next?"
CUTIE PIE!
Austin blows my mind with his standing abilities at such a young age. He even picks up his feet to take steps!
Morning play time
Momma is so silly!
Gavin is so great with his little cousins :)
Look! An adult made it into a picture!
She melts my heart!
Just hanging out in the bumbo
Aunt B broke out the boot with the fur for little Miss Kendall. TOO cute!
Photo-shoot day 2 - so serious
Almost caught some smiles! I think someone should video tape adults trying to get their kids to smile and submit it to America's Funniest Home Video's. Just thinking about the arm flapping, silly faces and funny noises we make cracks me up!
Quick! Take the picture before Lexi or Gavin "run" away again!
Attempt number 47... Lexi starting to cry (but it looks like a smile!) Austin eating his hands and Kendall putting on a mighty sad pouty face. Who would ever think the almost 3 year old would be the good one the whole time?
The boys :)
The girls :)
Sunday morning Kendall slept in. When I went up to check on her this is what I found!
Sleeping with your arm up in the air...apparently very comfortable :)
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